A country unable to defend itself risks losing its independence. A country unable to question itself risks losing the capacity to recognise when that independence has already been compromised.
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Limits of Institutional Understanding
Institutions do not merely resist criticism. They regulate the conditions under which criticism can become intelligible, credible and consequential.
We have built institutions that teach people how to think, then reward them for knowing when not to.
Language is more than a means of exchanging information. Beneath meaning and communication lie physical dynamics of rhythm, resonance and persistence that shape collective behaviour, social reality and the patterns through which we understand the world.
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Is AI Conscious? Ask Mathematics.
Is artificial intelligence conscious? The deeper question is whether complex mathematical structuire is conscious; what happens when physics, mathematics and technology converge.
Captain Fractal examines how political identities, media algorithms and institutional resistance to change reproduce conflict and instability.
We mistake the brain for the seat of intelligence and the individual for its owner. Both depend upon a much larger system.
Extreme wealth preserves its own stability by shifting costs onto everyone else. Captain Fractal explores why even billionaires cannot escape the physics of their own existence.
Over coffee, Captain Fractal considers a civilisation whose communication systems increasingly reward the behaviours that undermine its survival. The machinery isn’t broken. That’s the problem.
When humanity finally runs out of idiots to put in charge, it turns to Captain Fractal. Armed with decades of systems thinking, a ridiculous hat and a dangerous understanding of consequences, he sets about un-fucking civilisation.
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On Blogging
The internet promised freedom of expression. Instead, it has created a communications environment where serious thought carries increasing personal risks, while trolling, manipulation and intimidation flourish.
The greatest threat from Big Tech isn’t superior intelligence. It’s ordinary stupidity armed with extraordinary power.
